Forum: Photography


Subject: Is Surrealism unpopular in Photography?

Tedz opened this issue on May 25, 2005 ยท 44 posts


Onslow posted Thu, 26 May 2005 at 2:31 PM

I think RR makes it very difficult to display surreal photography a subject I was interested in when I first came here. If one manipulates an image beyond what is considered acceptable limits then it is cast out and you are sent to the 2D gallery. Since the genre is all about altered states then that leaves very little room for manoeuvre. It is a shame that RR cannot find a way to display digitally manipulated photographs without saying they are not photographs. An example the images of Georgia Denby, a recognised photographer by photographic organisations here in the UK, would I feel fall outside the realms of what is acceptable to RR photography gallery. You do a great job here Brian and I commend your efforts but I do think you are constrained to work within very narrow guidelines which is perhaps an unsurmountable barrier to some.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

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